A fiction of the past : the sixties in American history
In A Fiction of the Past, Dominick Cavallo pushes past the contemporary fog of myth, cold disdain and warm nostalgia that shrouds the radical youth culture of the sixties. He explores how the furiously chaotic sixties sprang from the comparatively placid forties and fifties. The book also digs beyond the post-World War II decades and seeks the historical sources of the youth culture in the distant American past. What were the historical precedents of the political ideas advanced by Students for a Democratic Society, the largest student group in American history? Where does the hippie counterculture - that strange melange of sex, drugs, rock and roll and "do your own thing" individualism - fit into the broad sweep of American culture and history?
History
282 pages ; 25 cm
9780312219307, 9780312235017, 031221930X, 0312235011
39981636
pt. 1: Sources of ferment in the forties and fifties. The cult of security
Middle-class child rearing and the renaissance of American individualism
New bottles, old wine: an archeology of rebellion
pt. 2: The sixties in American history I: The counterculture and rock and roll." It's free because it's yours": The diggers and the San Francisco scene, 1964-1968
Rock and work: another side of sixties music
pt. 3: The sixities in American history II: students for a democratic society. The politics of liberty and community: students for a democratic society, 1960-1965
The political ferment of the late eighteenth century and SDS's failed quest for community
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